North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Health Care Support Worker - Band 3 - PICU, Harplands Hospital:
There is an exciting opportunity to work as a Health Care Support Worker Band 3 within PICU, Harplands Hospital. We are searching for extra special Health Care Support Workers who have experience, passion and pride when caring for patients. This vacancy would suit someone who is looking for an exciting opportunity and wants to work on an Adult Acute Inpatient Ward.
As a Trust, we offer flexible working, including early, late, night, and twilight shifts.
The Unit opened in October 2019 with 6 beds. Our PICU has state-of-the-art facilities that offer the highest level of care. We work alongside a Trauma Informed Model of Care and treat patients individually. All our team members are trained to deliver comprehensive mental state assessments and psychological evidence-based interventions as well as de-escalation techniques.
The post is based at Harplands Hospital, and we offer free parking to all staff, encouraging staff to develop their careers. We support the Training Nurse Associate and Nurse Apprentice schemes, and there is also an opportunity to obtain your Mental Health Certificate.
Main Duties of the Job
* To promote and support the physical health, comfort, wellbeing, and recovery of service-users, assisting them in re-establishing their place in the community, as appropriate.
* To assist Registered Professionals in assessments and care planning/implementation and evaluation of individualized care plans.
* To provide support and day-to-day supervision to junior staff members, demonstrating the Health Care Support Worker role and role modeling good practice.
About Us
As a Trust, we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high-quality care.
We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and provide a range of wellness opportunities, including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to become the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. Sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. To deliver on this commitment, we recognize that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities, and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign aligned with the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions through our sustainability program.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We welcome applications from all under-represented groups, including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi, and trans communities.
Job Responsibilities
* Communicates with service-users and carers, all members of the multi-disciplinary team, and staff in external agencies using a variety of methods including Information Technology.
* Regularly reports and effectively communicates service-users' health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to Registered Health Professional staff members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
* Relates appropriately with service-users, carers, colleagues, and others at all times, maintaining professional boundaries.
* Ensures that own actions support the equality, diversity, rights, and responsibilities of individuals.
* Identifies, minimizes, and reports risks of danger, harm, and abuse to senior colleagues.
* Minimizes risks to self and others by undertaking safe working practices.
* Works within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.
* Works with other Trust services to promote seamless service-user person-centered care from referral/admission to transfer and discharge on identified care pathways.
* Responsible for contributing towards planning and undertaking delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Advanced Apprenticeship in (Mental) Health and Social Care
Experience
* Experience of working with people with Mental Health Needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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